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[ US /ˌsoʊˈmɑtɪk/ ]
[ UK /səmˈætɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit
    corporeal suffering
    a corporal defect
    a somatic symptom or somatic illness
    bodily needs

How To Use somatic In A Sentence

  • Because the disorder is specific to B cells, it may be a candidate for somatic gene therapy.
  • His interpretation of WL nicely illustrates how, on his view, physiological experiments can yield mathematically expressible results, not about the physical, somatic processes involved in sensation, but about the relationships among these sensations as apperceived, i.e., as psychological elements and objects of consciousness. Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt
  • At the same time, the information of flax biotechnology of anther culture, haploid breeding, utilization of somatic mutation, protoplasmic culture, gene transformation were introduced in detail.
  • For those practising massage, bodywork and manipulative therapies, these somatic dysfunctions are vital to the assessment of musculoskeletal integrity.
  • That which medicine can't explain we tend to label psychosomatic and blame the patient, a cruel phenomenon all too familiar to those who've had MS, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus, and a myriad of other ailments in decades past. John Falk: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome And Psychotherapy
  • This manipulation was initially restricted to embryo culture and nodal micropropagation, but it has recently been extended to somatic embryogenesis.
  • Gene manipulation, as it's being performed now, is gene manipulation of what we call somatic cells. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Cancer - January 2, 2000
  • Mental and physical exhaustion retards the growth of body and mind, and it often causes a psychosomatic illness.
  • If the mutation occurs in a somatic cell, it can cause altered cell growth (e.g., cancer) or cell death (e.g., teratogenesis) in the exposed person. Toxicity
  • I may say that in the physical aspect of tics we have a specific somatic manifestation which, if explained, should, in a way, be the gateway toward the understanding of the many somatic symptoms which we find in the psychoneuroses and psychoses. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
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